Absolutely. Just nothing of quality or interest at all. There were only 20 or so of us in the cinema for the second night of Amy the other evening. Apathy all round. Hoffman is right.
I'm a big fan of 'leftfield' film making, but I just found Frank, well to be 'frank' boring. For me they could have done the same thing in a UK setting, made it equally off the wall, but had some actual parallels to the life of the man himself rather than the whole thing being Stateside and...
King of Devil's Island - great Norwegian flick currently on BBC iPlayer. Think Scum set on a remote Norwegian island borstal. Based on a true story and featuring the legendary Stellan Skarsgard.
Neither Meade's Ball nor myself particularly liked it because it didn't contain an ethnic wheelchair bound Finnish dinosaur with learning difficulties I'm afraid Unc. #bring back Cheeky Monkey
In related news the other half persuaded me, against my better judgement, to sit down and watch Ex...
Are you in a position to judge both sides of the coin? I have a personal preference for foreign/independent cinema over the Hollywood machine, but I will watch mainstream American films (no Marvel superhero bullshit though), whereas I doubt you've seen many/enough foreign language films to make...
Well you sure went beyond the thunderdome and way beyond the call of duty to bring us that 'cheeky' little review MB. You'll be dusting your butt crack for sand for weeks to come I shouldn't wager. Top post-apocalyptic bombing.
The trailer for Selma does it no favours imho and makes it look like a TV movie with some pretty poor acting and low budget production and certainly didn't make me want to go and pay to see it.
My other half's friend's husband was the film's director. We both thought it wasnt all that. I slept through half an hour of it in a packed Duke of Yorks a few days back. The previous film we saw there was Wild, the Reece Witherspoon hiking one. I slept through about ten minutes of that...